Pith Number

pith:ZOTJMI3N

pith:2025:ZOTJMI3NCFVVXBZY2PT52H423B

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How Chain-of-Thought Works? Tracing Information Flow from Decoding, Projection, and Activation

Hao Yang, Lei Li, Lingyi Meng, Mengda Yu, Qinghua Zhao

arxiv:2507.20758 v2 · 2025-07-28 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZOTJMI3NCFVVXBZY2PT52H423B}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-27T01:05:37.096196Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cba696236d116b5b8738d3e7dd1f9ad853c82163545305b579b0597bc03214b8

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.20758 · arxiv_version: 2507.20758v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.20758 · pith_short_12: ZOTJMI3NCFVV · pith_short_16: ZOTJMI3NCFVVXBZY · pith_short_8: ZOTJMI3N

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZOTJMI3NCFVVXBZY2PT52H423B \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: cba696236d116b5b8738d3e7dd1f9ad853c82163545305b579b0597bc03214b8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e0ef354d8d32bc3f34c0b09f057d1d9cf4caee6febf0822e8e61dca2bcc8889d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-28T12:11:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f123c9ff82ca7bbd8983554fe2d3e2cbd8e63df8bd9cd4b4803f4fd417d8685a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.20758",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}